As for the environment variables on the remedy server, the following should be set:
LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 LANG=en_US.UTF-8 NLS_LANG=AMERICAN_AMERICA.AL32UTF8 These need to be set for the armonitor process. On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 8:09 PM, Axton <[email protected]> wrote: > The thing that is probably throwing an error is the NLS_CHARACTERSET. Here > are my parameters from a properly configured instance: > > PARAMETER VALUE > ------------------------ ---------------------------- > NLS_LANGUAGE AMERICAN > NLS_TERRITORY AMERICA > NLS_CURRENCY $ > NLS_ISO_CURRENCY AMERICA > NLS_NUMERIC_CHARACTERS ., > NLS_CALENDAR GREGORIAN > NLS_DATE_FORMAT DD-MON-RR > NLS_DATE_LANGUAGE AMERICAN > NLS_CHARACTERSET AL32UTF8 > NLS_SORT BINARY > NLS_TIME_FORMAT HH.MI.SSXFF AM > NLS_TIMESTAMP_FORMAT DD-MON-RR HH.MI.SSXFF AM > NLS_TIME_TZ_FORMAT HH.MI.SSXFF AM TZR > NLS_TIMESTAMP_TZ_FORMAT DD-MON-RR HH.MI.SSXFF AM TZR > NLS_DUAL_CURRENCY $ > NLS_NCHAR_CHARACTERSET UTF8 > NLS_COMP BINARY > NLS_LENGTH_SEMANTICS BYTE > NLS_NCHAR_CONV_EXCP FALSE > > On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 8:05 PM, Axton <[email protected]> wrote: > >> LANG and NLS_LANG should definitely be set. NLS_LANG tells the Oracle >> client how to encode/decode the data sent to and from the db. The product >> documentation covers the proper settings. >> >> On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 7:28 PM, Fatima <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> ** Hi everyone, >>> We are upgrading from ARS 6.3 on: >>> - Solaris 10 >>> - Oracle 9i >>> - Apache Tomcat 5.5.26 >>> to ARS 7.5 on: >>> - Solaris 10 >>> - Oracle 10g >>> - Apache Tomcat 5.5.29 >>> >>> The Oracle upgrade from 9i to 10g went fine. We upgraded ARS 6.3 to ARS >>> 7.1 fine. >>> With the ARS 7.5 patch 5 installer, we get an error indicating that our >>> underlying database is not Unicode but ARS is configured as Unicode. >>> Although our database is Unicode, our NLS Parameters are as follows: >>> >>> SQL> SELECT * FROM V$NLS_PARAMETERS; >>> >>> PARAMETER VALUE >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------- >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------- >>> NLS_LANGUAGE AMERICAN >>> NLS_TERRITORY AMERICA >>> NLS_CURRENCY $ >>> NLS_ISO_CURRENCY AMERICA >>> NLS_NUMERIC_CHARACTERS ., >>> NLS_CALENDAR >>> GREGORIAN >>> NLS_DATE_FORMAT >>> DD-MON-RR >>> NLS_DATE_LANGUAGE AMERICAN >>> NLS_CHARACTERSET >>> AR8ISO8859P6 >>> NLS_SORT BINARY >>> NLS_TIME_FORMAT >>> HH.MI.SSXFF AM >>> NLS_TIMESTAMP_FORMAT >>> DD-MON-RR HH.MI.SSXFF AM >>> NLS_TIME_TZ_FORMAT >>> HH.MI.SSXFF AM TZR >>> NLS_TIMESTAMP_TZ_FORMAT >>> DD-MON-RR HH.MI.SSXFF AM TZR >>> NLS_DUAL_CURRENCY $ >>> NLS_NCHAR_CHARACTERSET >>> AL16UTF16 >>> NLS_COMP BINARY >>> NLS_LENGTH_SEMANTICS BYTE >>> NLS_NCHAR_CONV_EXCP FALSE >>> >>> Does anyone know exactly which parameters does the installer check to >>> know if the database is Unicode or not, so we can ensure they are set >>> correctly. >>> The OS LANG and NLS_LANG parameters are not set, do they need to be set >>> to any specific value? >>> >>> The weird thing is that the ARS 7.5 patch 3 installer runs smoothly >>> without this error, but we prefer to go to patch 5. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Fatima Amin >>> _attend WWRUG10 www.wwrug.com ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"_ >> >> >> > _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org attend wwrug10 www.wwrug.com ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"

